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collage aluminum
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Gift of Robert and Sheri Reindollar
Marek Ranis’s Panzerwerk series includes digital photomontages like this one that combine autobiographical elements with his concern for the impermanence of human existence. Here, the central image is a digital rendering of one of Ranis’s sculptural works, which has been abstracted to resemble an explosion. This image is superimposed on an aerial photograph of Wroclaw, the artist’s native town in Poland, after it was bombed during the Second World War. Although the inclusion of Wroclaw is an obvious autobiographical reference, Ranis also intends the town to represent civilization in a broader sense. He perceives World War II as the pivotal point in history, when Western culture finally succeeded in collapsing any sense of global diversity. With its modern adoration for the military industrial complex, the West also succeeded in scrambling or re-prioritizing the conventional tenets of human civilization, i.e. food, water, and shelter, initiating what the artist refers to as an era of “no one’s world.”
Accession Number: 2013.75.2
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NEPL Mint signed nonexclusive license with artist 2016
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